Improvement in coolers for wine



lPatenced March 11, 1873.

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Coolers for Wine.

AM. PHoTo-L/r/ms/MPH/c ca (osaafgn/E PRa/sss) 4sPA'rnlwr JOSEPH REED wHiPPLE, or BOSTON, MASSAOHUsnuifrs.v

IMPROVEMENT IN COOLERS FOR WINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,632, dated March 1l, 1873.

To alltvlzont it may concern:

.Be it known that I, JOSEPH REED WHIP- PLE, of Boston, lin the 'county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain i j Improvements in Wine-Freezers, of which the.

following is a specification:

Nature and Object of the Invention.

The nature of my invention consists of cer; tain attachments to the ice-containing t'ub used tofreeze or chill wine in bottles, by which the bottle is Supported and held at top and bottom while another device effects a rapid rotation of the same and the object is to shorten the time of freezing a bottle of wine, and to effect that purpose more thoroughly.

Description of thc Drawing.

The drawing represents a side View of the bottle placed in the machine and supported in the way I have devised, with the ice-containing tub in vertical section; also,` a side view of the wheels, crank, &c., by which the rotation of the bottle is effected.

Description of the Invention.

In the drawing, A A are the sides of a cylindlrical tub placed perpendicularly, without aboveig, and with a bottom, B. C is a horizontal projection (called the standard-projection) from one side of the tub, near the top, bearing a perpendicular cylindrical hole. Down through this hole passes the shaft D, of metal,

which shaft (called the standard-shaft) is held, when in place, firmly xed to the projection C by means of the set-screw E. The shaft D proceeds downward from the under Side of the Slab of metal F, to which it is iirmly attached at a point near the right-hand end ofthe same. At a point just below the slab F the shaft D bears a collar, Ex, fastened by a set or thumb j screw, E. This collar EX has two downward projections from its lower surface, (seen inthe foration, which forms the bearing of the working-shaft H, (dashed lines.) This shaft H bears at its right-hand end a ily-wheel, J, which carries a crank-hand1e, K. At its lefthand end the shaft H bears a bevel cog-wheel, L, which gears below into a bevel cog-wheel, M, of onethird the diameter of L, or thereabout, at right .angles to it, which wheel M is borne by the slab F by means of the hollow cylinder attached to its lower surface, which ts into a hole o`r bearing in the slab, and is so placed that its` center perpendicularly is coincident with the `-center ofthe tub A A.V The wheel M carriesl on its upper surface a collar, N, furnished with a set-screwl or thumbscrew, P. (I sometimes also have upon the lower end of the bearingcylinder of the wheel M a collar below the slab F to prevent the wheel M rising.) Through the center of this collar N and the wheel M passes loosely up and down, except when fast-- ened by the set-screw P, the spike-shaft Q, carrying a button, R, at its top and at its bottom a circular disk, S, from the lower surface of which project downward two, three, or more spikes. Two only, T T, are seen in the draw ing. The disk S also bears, firmly fastened to and hanging from it, the frustum of a hollow cone, SX, whose axis is coincident with that of the spike-shaft Q, and which surrounds the spikes T T and the cork of the bottle operated on. U is the holder-shaft, being a rod of met al perpendicularly disposed, fastened, by the collar and nut below, (seen in the drawing,) to the bottom of the ice-tub A A at its center. This holder-shaft U bears at its top a cupshaped attachment, V, with its concave side uppermost. W is the bottle, holding its cham.- pagne or other wine to be operated onr Operation of vthe Intent/ion.

I place the bottle W with the nipple in the dimple at its bottom fitting into the cuplshaped attachment V. Then, takingthe slab F and its attachments, I insert theshaft D into the aperture of the projection C and screw upv the set-screw E; also, the one Ez attached to the collar EX. I then, by striking upon the button It, drive down the spike-shaft Q, thus causing the spikes T T to enter the cork of the bottle while the hollowl cone SX surrounds the cork, the combined device thus holding the bottle perpendicular. I then tighten the set or thumb screw -P, thus holding the spike-shaft ,Q in*a place. When I have under action a half-bottles bevel-wheel L, thus rotating with greater ra-l pidity the small bevel-wheel M, the spike-shaft Q, and the spikes T T. By means of these latter the bottle W yWith its contents is rotated, thus exposing the same to the action of the freezing-mixture. When the congelation has proceeded to a sufficient extent (which will be, rotating the fly-wheel, say, fifty or more times the minute, in a period of, say, five to seven minutes, instead of thirty or forty minutes as with the old devices,)I1oosen the setscrer E and remove the slab F and its attachments 5 then, removing the bottle, I substitute another, and the process goes on. y

The main features of my device are these: I use an'ice-and-salt-containin g vessel, in Which the article to be frozen is placed, and, by means of entire or partial rotation, is submitted to congealing action. I claim nothing on this feature. But I obtain by my combination of devices, in the 'first place, a rapid rotation -of the bottle containing. the liquor to be frozen," andthence a rapid freezing ofthe same sec.

' Ulafims.

I claim- 1. The combination and arrangement of the tub A A, the slab F, the shaft Q, land the de- Vices for its rotation and securing the bottle to it, withthe holder-shaft U, all substantially as described. -f

2. The combination and arrangement, with the above-named devices, of the holder-shaft collar N with its set-screw?, the spikes T vT or their equivalent, Whether with or without the cone Sx, all substantially as described.

3. TheJ combination andarran gement of the devicesmentioned in the first claim with the standard-shaft D and the. standard-projection G, all substantially as described. A JOSEPH REED WHIPPLE. .I Witnesses: Y

LEMUEL P. JENKS, JEROME DRIUS. 

